• @Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
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    213 days ago

    Ok, I get you now. That’s just obtuse pedantry. If the demand for animal products goes down, so will supply. This gives an individual the power to lower supply, to choose not to has the same overall effect as killing a few animals. The distinction doesn’t matter. Your actions have consequences whether you like it or not. Animal ag cannot survive without money and whenever you buy animal products you are giving it to them.

    • Victoria Antoinette
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      113 days ago

      If the demand for animal products goes down, so will supply

      that’s not causal, and, also not what the theory of supply and demand says. the theory says that the price will decrease, not that production will.

      • @Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
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        213 days ago

        That’s why when nobody wanted vhs anymore they just kept making them at the exact same rate for less and less money. They’re still producing billions of vhs players every year and selling them at huge losses because wikipedia said something about supply and demand. You’ve cracked the code, you’re morally in the clear now, you found the magic words that absolve you of all personal responsibility. Hoorayyyyyyyy.

      • @Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
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        213 days ago

        Obtuse pedantry is definitely thought terminating. When you just word spaghetti your way out of any argument or dismiss it uncritically instead of actually engaging with it.

        • Victoria Antoinette
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          113 days ago

          my comments are concise, and i don’t require “word spaghetti” to explain flaws in your arguments.